Dorothy Garrod, c. 1913, Newnham College, Cambridge. This image is in the public domain and can be accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a professorship at the University of Cambridge when she was elected as Disney Professor of Archaeology in 1939 (beating Oxford by almost 10 years). She was a pioneer of Paleolithic archaeology and led excavations in Gibraltar, Palestine, Southern Kurdistan, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

Oh yea, and she also held three honorary doctorates (from University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and Oxford). NBD. We think that’s pretty cool.